Amenities and Manufacturing Location Patterns: Planning Grant

该项目开发了一项研究计划，调查当地设施如何影响制造商的选址模式。这项初步工作可以概括为三个任务：检查先前的文献，指标规范和计量经济模型。对先前文献的研究侧重于多市场享乐分析和区位理论。这些信息将提供对以前使用的舒适措施的批评，并将有助于扩大和重新制定该措施。这里还将确定可用于实现这一目标的潜在数据来源。第三项任务涉及确定计量经济学模型，该模型将适用于计划中的拟议研究。在完成这些工作后，将于2001年8月提交一份竞争性拨款建议。考虑到便利设施确实会影响地理位置，这项研究对对经济发展和预测感兴趣的公共和私人规划者很有用。更详细地了解两者之间的联系可以提高经济效率。当地方竞争吸引和保留工业时，对便利设施和其他非传统地点因素的日益关注进一步证明了这一主题的重要性。然而，迄今为止，很少有实证研究直接分析便利设施对制造商选址决策的影响。

This project develops a research proposal investigating how local amenities affect manufacturers' location patterns. This preliminary work can be generalized into three tasks: examination of prior literature, index specification, and econometric modeling. The examination of prior literature focuses on multi-market hedonic analysis and location theory. This information will provide a critique of a previously used amenity measure, and will aid in expanding and reformulating that measure. Here also, potential data sources will be identified which may be used to achieve that objective. The third task involves identifying econometric models that will be suitable for the proposed research being planned. After these tasks, a competitive grant proposal will be submitted in August 2001. Given that amenities do influence location, this research is useful to public and private planners interested in economic development and forecasting. More detailed knowledge about the link between the two promotes economic efficiency. The importance of this topic is further evidenced by the increased attention paid to amenities and other nontraditional location factors when localities compete to attract and retain industry. Yet very little empirical research has been done to date which directly analyzes the influence that amenities have on manufacturers' location decisions.